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- The question is about whether the USPTO patented a stick. It didn't, it patented something that resembles a stick. Arguing that a stick could invalidate the patent ignores that many patented things resemble things in nature, but as they are man-made as a product, they are subject to being patentable.
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Feb 20, 2023 · To add to the two other good answers, the patent wasn't just for "a stick", it was for a stick shaped dog chew toy that acted like a real stick. This reads as a patent for a commercial product that acts and looks like a stick, not a stick you'd pick up off the ground under a tree.
Oct 5, 2017 · USPTO actually granted a patent on a fake stick. 1. My all-time favorite dumb patent is Apple’s design patent for… a rectangle with rounded corners. Granted in 2012, Apple received a...
Oct 6, 2010 · The first thing to observe here is that on March 26, 2002, the United States Patent Office issued a patent on a what can only be described as a stick. In support of this conclusion, one...
Jul 1, 2020 · For example, in 2014, the USPTO granted a patent to disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who was convicted of fraud for falsifying experimental results relating to the cloning of human stem cells – the very subject of his patent.
In 2000, USPTO finally issued a patent that was filed back in 1936. And what was the invention so threatening to national security that it couldn’t be made public for 64 years? A cryptograph...
Dec 14, 2011 · To further the illusion of being a stick or a branch, a simulated textured bark 24 is disposed along the longitudinal length of the animal toy 10. Referring now also to FIG. 2, is shown a variety...
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Aug 12, 2012 · In 2002, Ross Long was granted a patent for what was, essentially, a stick: “An apparatus for use as a toy by an animal, for example a dog, to either fetch carry or chew includes a main section with at least one protrusion extending therefrom that resembles a branch in appearance.
